Type-casting machine.



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Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

0. 'v. SIGURDSSON. TYPE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED PEBJB, 1911. 1,045,202.

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0. v. SIGURDSSON.

TYPE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18, 1911.

1,045,202. Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

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WITNESSES.

ATTORNEY COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 450., WASHINGTON. D. c.

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ODDUR V. SIGURDSSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ODDUR MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

TYPE-CASTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 18, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ODDUR V. SIcUnossoN, a subject of the King of Denmark, residing in the borough of Brooklyn county of Kings, and State of New York, United States of America, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Type-Cast ing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to typecasting machines in general, and in particular to that class of typesetting and composing machine originated by me, wherein is used a matrix disk carrying a font or a plurality of fonts upon one of its side faces.

During the operation of a machine of this class, it is frequently desirable to remove the matrix disk and substitute another having upon its face matrices for a different font.

My improvement relates to such substitution of disks and embodies means whereby it may be readily efiected, and in order that the relation of the keyboard and associated disk operating and controlling parts may not be disturbed, I mount the disk support and all such parts upon a subsidiary frame that may be moved upon, or swung upon the main frame. In this way the disk support is made readily accessible for change of disks without disarranging any parts of the machine, it being only necessary to swing or move the subsidiary frame, change the disk and return the frame to normal position.

The accompanying drawings show one embodiment of the invention that experience has demonstrated to be practical and eflicient.

Figure l is a side elevation, partly in section, of so much of a typesetting machine as is'necessary to illustrate the invention; Fig. 2, a similar view, showing a modified construction; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Referring to Fig. 1, 1 designates the frame of the machine upon which are sustained the various members. The matrix disk 2, located in front of the mold 3, is mounted for rotation upon a support 4 pivotally mounted at 5 on the frame of the machine. A locking device shown as consisting of a headed cylindrical bolt 6 and a locking lever 7 engaging the bolt beneath its head maintains the support in its normal operative position. During the casting operations of the machine the matrix disk is moved to and from the mold as indicated by dotted lines. This movementis effected by a lever 8 whose upper forked end embraces a flanged collar 9 carried by the disk and rotating with it upon or with the matrix disk shaft 10. The lower end of this lever is pivoted at 11 in a bracket 12 mounted on the support 4 and the reaction of a spring 13 tends to draw the lever to the front and hold the matrix disk away from the mold. A cam surface 14 on lever 8 cooperates with a roller 15 carried by a horizontal lever 16 pivoted at 17 on the support 4, the roller acting to overcome the tension of spring 13 and move the disk to the mold for a casting operation when lever 16 is moved downwardly. This lever may be operated as follows: When the support 4 is raised to operative posit-ion, the rounded free end of lever 16 seats in a socket in a slide 18 movable vertically in ways on the frame 1 and operated by a link 19 connected to one arm of a bell crank lever 20 whose other arm is controlled by a cam wheel 21. Upon the support 4 are also mounted the character or finger keys 22 and the devices controlled \thereby by which proper rotation and stoppage of the matrix disk is effected. In proper relation to the matrix disk is the mold. 23 is the metal pot of which 2-1 is the casting nipple. To effect a change of disks, the operator unlocks the lever 7, allowing support 41 to be moved away from the mold, or to be lowered to the position shown by the dotted lines in which it may be cushioned by springs 25 interposed between it and the frame 1. When the support 4 is thus retracted the matrix disk may be easily removed and another substituted therefor.

Figs. 2 and 3 show a modification in which the support 1 is reciprocated, in ways 31 on the frame 1, to and from the mold by means of eccentrics 26, 27, operated by a hand lever 28 on a shaft 29 mounted in the frame and to which the lever and eccentrics are secured. During the movement of the eccentrics they act upon shoulders or abutments 30 on the slide portion of the support. The matrix disk may thus be moved in the direction of the arrow away from the mold.

Any suitable power devices might be used to effect the movement of the support 4 or 4?.

I claim:

In a typecasting machine the combination of a main frame, a type mold carried thereby, a subsidiary frame mounted upon the main frame and adapted to be moved from and to normal operative position, a rotatable matrix disk, a matrix disk support on the subsidiary frame upon Which support the matrix disk is detachably mounted, and matrix disk controlling keys and associated parts also mounted in the subsidiary frame, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

ODDUR V. SIGURDSSON. Witnesses: GEORGE D. HARTLEY, M. W. CLEPHANE.

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